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Melvyn recieves his PIP appeal refusal letter

Hello its Melvyn here, I had my PIP appeal last Thursday on the 29th of March, I got the result yesterday and the decision is no, the appeal has been refused and the reason why I’ve been reduced.. erm its got three, five and six here,.. erm one, two, three, three, five, six, I don’t know why there is two threes.
Erm.. Mr Brooks is not entitled to any rate of the daily living component from the 30th of the 9th 2017, he scores five points this is insufficient to meet the threshold for the test, managing , It says here managing therapy or monitoring a health condition.
Right it says need driver to use an aid or appliance to be able to manage medication or assistance of prompting or assistance to be able to manage medication or monitor a health condition ( I got one point for that ) well my daughter gives me my tablets I don’t touch them anymore, so that’s a lie.
Any toilet needs or incontinence , needs to use an aid or appliance to be able to manage the toilet needs or incontinence, ( I got two points for that) so that’s lies, because I am incontinent at times.
Dressing and undressing , needs to use and aid or appliance to dress or undress ,
I have help sometimes .
Mr Brooks is not entitled to any level of mobility component from the 30/ 9/2017 he scores no points, he scores no points this is insufficient for the test.
I have a job to walk erm.. I have got mobility problems, I’ve fallen over two or three times indoors already, erm.. more than that actually and erm.. I can not cook anymore erm.. I put an electric kettle on the gas hob and it caught light so I am unable to cook anymore , erm.. my wife , my wife used to tell me what to do and we used to work as a team that’s how it was , erm.. I can not travel on my own , cant go on public transport on my own, cant go shopping on my own erm.. what else , I feel absolutely horrendous and erm.. I don’t know whether I can carry on doing it anymore, if I can fight this.
I phoned Nigel up yesterday and erm.. I was upset when I got the news. I feel absolutely horrendous about it, I’ve got two types of dementia I’ve got frontal temporal dementia and I’ve got Alzheimer’s, its a brain disease I’ve got. My mental health is down the shit, down the pan sorry about the swear, down the pan its really bad and its ..” Melvyn sighs” .. I don’t know , I don’t now where its all going to go.

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